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David Gordon Green and Danny McBride talked at length leading up to Halloween about their decision to erase all of the previous sequels out of canon. But did they ever think for a minute about how the franchise actually got to the point that this move was necessary? It wasn’t because things got too “convoluted” or that there…

*This post will contain spoilers for A Quiet Place* The premise of A Quiet Place sounds like something a screenwriting professor would come up with as a way of explaining the principle of “show, don’t tell.” If you want audiences to understand how the world of your film works, the teacher would say, you shouldn’t have a…

Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is one of those movies that completely enraptures you during its running time, only to leave you spending the rest of the night poking holes in the plot and realizing that none of it seems to make that much sense. Looking back on the film — which I really enjoyed, by the way —…

After watching Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad last year, I left the theater in a state of bewilderment to be sure, but I can’t say that I was overly disappointed. After all, I don’t have much of a personal connection to the DC comic book characters, nor was I particularly invested in the success of a DC cinematic…